I seem to recall War and Peace had too many characters for my taste.
More recently I read Neal Stephenson's "Reamde" and I was impressed by how well he maintained my interest despite almost too many POV characters. I'm thinking there were perhaps six real POV types. At first I was thinking there were too many pages (what could possibly happen that can't be resolved sooner?) and then later I was thinking he needed more pages. He could have explored the T'Rain stuff even further.
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